Bad breakup blamed in Calif lingerie store arson

DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say a California woman believed to be distraught over a breakup was charged with trying to torch a lingerie store where her ex-boyfriend bought underthings.

Prosecutors say 42-year-old Jennifer Colwell pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to felony arson.

Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino says Colwell was apparently distraught over the failed relationship.

KCBS-TV (cbsloc.al/QIKjcO) says the breakup led Colwell to stuff a pillowcase with gifts her ex bought at Intimate Obsessions.

Investigators say she then went to the Dana Point store early Tuesday, soaked the pillowcase in gasoline and set it on fire in an attempt to burn down the business.

Firefighters extinguished the blaze before it spread to the lingerie store.

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Information from: KCBS-TV, http://www.cbs2.com/

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Christina Aguilera has hit back at record label bosses for pressuring her to lose weight, saying that she wouldn’t be successful if she had a fuller figure.

The 31-year-old singer — currently a judge on the American reality Talent show The Voice — was warned that if the she didn’t slim down, nobody would buy her music and by 2006, she was at her lightest.

“During the promotion of my album Stripped, I got tired of being a skinny, white girl,” the Mirror quoted her, as telling Billboard Magazine.

“I am Ecuadorian, but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl. The next time my label saw me, I was heavier, darker and full of piercings! Let me tell you, that wasn’t an easy pill for them to swallow.”

“I had gained about 15 pounds during promotion and during my Stripped tour. They called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash about my weight,” she said.

She said that the bosses told her that she would affect a lot of people if she gained weight — the production, musical directors.

“(They claimed) people I toured with would also miss out if I gained weight, because I would sell no records or tickets for my shows.”

“I was young, so I lost the weight quickly and was toothpick thin during the Back to Basics promos and touring,” she said.

She also said that now she won’t be getting told what she can and can’t eat anymore, and has told the bosses at her current record label, Lotus, to get used to her sexy curves.

“I told them, ‘You are working with a fat girl. Know it now and get over it,’” she said.

“They need a reminder sometimes that I don’t belong to them. It’s my body.”

“My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore — my body is just not on the table that way anymore,” she added.

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